Daily digest: SoftBank's $64.6B OpenAI total, Meituan LongCat-2.5 open-sourced, Anthropic's $69.3B IPO plan
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-11-10
A November 10 industry digest: SoftBank completed its promised $30B additional investment in OpenAI (in three $10B tranches), bringing its total to $64.6B for roughly a 13% stake. Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T-parameter native multimodal MoE (48B active per token) under MIT license with 1M-token context. Anthropic plans an IPO raising up to $69.3B at $70–80/share, with Google, NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, Micron, Microsoft and TSMC investing $26B via private placement at IPO price. Also: Ant's LingBot open-sourced the LingBot-Touch tactile foundation model trained on 5,000 hours of real tactile data; NVIDIA released world action model GR00T2 trained on 400K+ hours of egocentric video; the Golden Rooster film festival launched its first AI unit; and former Toutiao CEO Chen Lin confirmed an AI education startup.
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